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Commercial Transport Law Solicitors

Transport Law Specialists

Expert specialists in legal support for businesses operating goods or passenger vehicles.


Why you many need help from a Solicitor

Few people outside the transport sector understand how tightly regulated the industry is. With piles of laws, regulations, standards and best practice, its not surprising that businesses involved in transport have regular need for legal support. Its also a competitive sector with acute commercial pressures. Things do go wrong and sometimes you need professional support navigating the complexities of things such as operator licensing just as one example. We're here to help with all your legal and regulatory needs.

You should feel free to pick up the phone and speak to us at any time to discuss your problems and requirements. We’ll be very glad to listen to your issue, give you feedback and tell you how we can help you. Where we can help you, we’ll assess your case and propose an action plan. This is all absolutely free of charge and without obligation so please pick up the phone and get in touch.


Typical things we can help you with:

As well as transport law and regulatory issues, we can advise you on business and employment. Common things we help our clients with are:-


Why people turn to us for help

We help a large number of transport related businesses with their legal problems every year. We believe this is because we provide:-

  • Successful outcomes to problems, we’re very good at what we do. You’re in very safe hands.
  • Value for money at reasonable rates. We normally offer you a Fixed Price Fee so the full cost is certain from the start.
  • You can pay us through a monthly instalment plan if you need to.
  • When necessary we can work at short notice and pull out all the stops for you.

We can help you wherever you are based

We provide a truly national service. It doesn’t matter whereabouts in the country you are based, we can help you.

We cover public inquiries in all UK Traffic Areas : North East, South West, North West, South East, West Midlands, Eastern, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We deal with operator licence applications from any part of the UK. We can represent you in all Courts and Tribunals throughout England and Wales.


Some more info about how we work

We are experts in our specialist field and have high success rates

Over 15 years experience, we’re set up to provide you with the best specialist advice and representation on transport law matters. Our clients achieve very high success rates helped by our commitment and genuine interest in winning cases.

Free discussion and initial assessment of your case

You can speak to us without obligation and run through the issues with a solicitor. You’ll get comments on your case and a proposal on how we can help. Pick up the phone and call.

Strategic approach

We do far more than blandly going through the legal motions. We discuss and agree a plan to go forward intelligently and with a clear purpose based on your needs and desired outcome.

Fixed price fees, payment options and instalment plans available

You’ll probably find it helpful for costs to be transparent, fixed and if need be payable by regular monthly instalments. Our client generally find this far better for cash flow and budgeting than hourly rates where the final bill is unknown.


Nationwide Service

We work for transport operators in all parts of the United Kington including England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.  Wherever you are based in the country, we can help, advise and represent you exactly the same.  


Contact us with your commercial transport law matters 

The best way to find out if we can help you and if you’d like us to work for you is to pick up the phone and call us. We’ll be happy to speak to you, listen to your problem and give you some feedback on how we might be able to help.

You can contact us at any time, free and without obligation, on 0800 1777 522.


Call us for free on 0800 1777 522


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Latest Info Articles

We were approached by an operator who had received public inquiry paper several weeks earlier. The Operator instructed us to represent him at his inquiry listed for a hearing before the Traffic Commis...
We recently represented two companies who were both called to the same public inquiry. Although separate entities, the companies were closely connected because of having the same set of directors. One...
We were approached by a small business owner to represent them at the a public inquiry which had been called to consider their application for a new passenger vehicle operator’s licence.The person app...

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IF YOU NEED HELP OR ADVICE WITH A TRANSPORT LAW ISSUE

Call us today for free on 0800 1777 522
Send us an enquiry online via our contact form HERE
Email us on contact@nalegal.co.uk

Latest Transport Law

Transport Law
We were approached by an operator who had received public inquiry paper several weeks earlier. The Operator instructed us to represent him at his inquiry listed for a hearing before the Traffic Commissioner’s (TC) only two weeks in advance.

There were several serious issues that the TC indicated he wanted to examine at the hearing and was threatening regulatory action against the Operator Company. The Operator had approached another firm of solicitors, who informed him that the likely outcome of the hearing would be loss of repute and licence revocation.

We provided the Operator with advice about immediate steps to be taken in preparation for the hearing. We requested the operator send us a number of documents critical to the success of his inquiry. A consideration of those document showed significant—but not insurmountable—shortfalls in maintenance standards and legal requirements.

The operator had recently appointed a new Transport Manager (TM) with an excellent reputation in his field. The TM worked along with us in analysing the Company’s compliance systems to create better compliance systems and improve the of the Company’s mindset about such.

We prepared extensive written representations and sent these to the TC in advance of the hearing along with supporting documentation.

We recommended that both the Operator (Director) and his Transport Manager attend the hearing. As expected the TC questioned the Operator and TM extensively about the various issued raised. We guided and advised the Operator and TM throughout the hearing. Following our final submissions, the TC decided not to revoke the licence or disqualify the Operator Company. The Operator was issued with a warning and a very short suspension of one vehicle until it had a further maintenance inspection and remedial work done. The Operator was allowed to keep the rest of his fleet working with minimal disruption to the business. The Operator was thrilled with our services and has since instructed us at least one other transport matter.
Transport Law
We recently represented two companies who were both called to the same public inquiry. Although separate entities, the companies were closely connected because of having the same set of directors. One of the companies (the Operator) had years previously been issued with a restricted goods vehicle operator’s licence. The other company had recently applied for the same kind of licence (the Applicant).

Over the previous year, the directors had decided to progressively move most of the Operator’s business interests to its sister company the Applicant. Without understanding the potential consequences, and before being granted its operator’s licence, the Applicant began using the Operator’s heavy goods vehicle. The Operator company had not informed the Traffic Commissioner (TC) of its change in business arrangements and of the apparent change of entity (though the companies were actually wholly owned subsidiaries of another company – see below).

The Public Inquiry was convened because of changes at this business group and a fundamental misunderstanding of the operator’s licence regime, and that there had been what appeared to be a change of entity involving the companies.

The TC needed to be satisfied as to whether the companies were not unfit to hold an operator’s licence due to relevant activities and convictions, and about the events relating to a change in the circumstances of the licence holder. The Operator risked revocation of its licence. The Applicant was at risk of not having its licence granted.

In advance of the inquiry, and to start building their case, we obtained as much information as we could about the businesses and provided each company comprehensive legal advice. We examined the companies’ compliance systems and made recommendations about immediate and longer-term changes that needed to be implemented. On our recommendations, the companies invested time and resources into their maintenance and other systems

As a result of our preliminary work and advice, the companies were fully prepared for the public inquiry hearing. In particular, to answer questions and provide evidence about the apparent change of entity.

At the hearing we demonstrated that the companies were running professional and competent businesses. With specific reference to the issue of the apparent change of entity, the TC accepted that Section 3(4) of the Goods vehicle (licencing of operators) Act 1995 was relevant and that this was not a typical “change of entity” case – because of the companies being subsidiaries. We were able to persuade the TC that the issues that lead to the inquiry arose out of ignorance rather than an attempt to mislead or gain financial advantage

The TC granted the new licence to the Applicant with the Operator company voluntarily surrendering its licence. The directors were delighted with the outcome of the public inquiry hearing and that they managed to avoid the damaging consequences they feared.
Transport Law

We were approached by a small business owner to represent them at the a public inquiry which had been called to consider their application for a new passenger vehicle operator’s licence.

The person applying for the licence had a long background of work in the transport industry as a driver but had never before operated his own transport business. One of the key issues was that the nominated transport manager was also nominated some other licences and the Traffic Commissioner was concerned whether this meant that the transport manager would be able to properly carry out their duties on so many licences at once.